Smorl’s Kitchen is a vegan cafe in Brighton Open Market. It is an offshoot of Smorl’s, a producer based in the city that specialises in small batch artisan houmous. Smorl’s range has four variations (original, fresh chilli, extra garlic and thunder garlic) is available to buy both online and at the market stall.
The cafe’s menu regularly changes but always has houmous at its heart. Dishes are both traditional and experimental. The falafel pitta pocket sits firmly in the former. Here the pitta is lined with Smorl’s houmous and then filled with falafel, green salad, picked cabbage, vegetable tapenade, pickles, tahini and dill dressing, chilli and lime dressing, before being topped with sunflower seeds. A tortilla wrap is also on offer, which again uses falafel is the main filling alongside green salad, pickled cabbage, grated carrot, pickled gherkins, turmeric cauliflower, tahini and dill dressing, and chilli and lime dressing.
Those not after bread can opt for a falafel and houmous salad box. This features some interesting additions to the salad mix, such as potato dauphinoise and butternut puree. Pushing the boat even further is the Moroccan-style falafel bolognese, served with fries or brown rice plus pickled cabbage, toasted sesame seeds and Smorl’s houmous.
The two side dishes are samba dhal soup (even served with brown or toasted pitta fingers) and dirty dauphinoise dippers, in which houmous is layered up with the usual thinly sliced potatoes. Smorl’s Kitchen is also on Deliveroo.